The reason I want to really re-work the starting squad is mostly because being a builder unit making them super expensive at 325 MP to build can destroy the PE player if he loses the squad. To save that much manpower and wait for the squad to also rebuild in time to let the player tech-up is almost a death sentence when facing a competent allied players. As they will push you in knowing that you can't actually build any important structures needed to counter whatever they are doing in time. So by making the squad smaller it will serve the purpose of letting the PE player at least not lag behind everyone else if mistakes/RNG had given them a bad day. It also lets the Infantry Halftrack be utilized to its full potential as the one thing that halftrack desperately needs is a small squad to fit in and go shoot stuff up as it only has 3 firing slots on the top of its roof for infantry models.
This also brings me to another rework I would like to see of PGrens and that is giving them buffs when they are around vehicles. Being 'Panzer' Grenadiers they should work in close conjunction with the vehicle/armor support and do combined assaults with them and not just be another infantry squad you move around to shoot at stuff. Depending on how powerful these buffs are they can equalize the difference between their smaller squad sizes vs larger squads of allied infantry. Adding this type of stuff in also helps me bring back Group Zeal in a way. Except it is re-worked as to not provide a flat buff for all models grouped together (as that's a bad idea in BK). It is instead an ability that will provide another set of buffs when around tanks that is stackable with buffs around light vehicles; when these two buffs are combined the awesome power of PGrens is truly unleashed (or atleast should be considering how rare it is to see a light vehicle and a tank roaming around together sometimes).
Even if everything else about PE stays the same, like 7 man late game Heavy Assault Grenadiers; PE desperately needs an buildable cheap infantry unit as only having expensive squads around to use when being utilized in big maps (narrow maps they kind of do ok) cripples their ability to maneuver; with most players just opting to spam scout cars and kettenkrads if the map is really huge. Although having a small squad might seem weak; I gave them later weapon upgrades in the form of an LMG34 or another set of G43s(max weapon slots for this squad will be 4 so they can't get anymore weapons after their second set of upgrades) so they are still 'good' later in the game in the face of allied elite infantry. They might not need it if the buffs in conjunction with vehicles are utilized/good-enough but this is all theoretical so I can't say for sure.
